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Quote by Gaston Bachelard
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we d

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. – Gaston Bachelard

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One must always maintain ones connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort. – Gaston Bachelard

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Past, the
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. – Gaston Bachelard

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When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward. – Swedish Proverb

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The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it cant be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it. – Anon.

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Progress

When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bulls eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim — improve yourself. – Gilbert Arland

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Progress

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself. – Andrew Carnegie

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The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them. – Albert Einstein, letter to Sigmund Freud, 1932 July 30th

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It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least. – Robert Browning

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